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Insurance Companies Globe marine insurance company (LIMITED.! CAPITAL £500,000. Head Office ; London. Risks on merchandise and steamers to all parts o£ the world taken at lowest current rates. Losses promptly paid in Wellington, Loudon, or any of the numerous agencies. LEVIN & CO., Agents. 'Y'ICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. - Established 1819. CAPITAL £200,000 Head Office : Melbourne. Insurance of every description effected at lowest current rates, and claims promptly met. Losses can be made payable in any part of New Zealand or the Australian colonies. LEVIN & CO., Agents. Books, Stationery, &c. List of books SUITABLE FOE CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR’S GIFTS IN STOCK AT LYON & BLAIR’S. The following Books, forming part of a very large consignment, are all Elegantly Bound, Supeeblt Illustkated by the best artists (including Gustave Dore, Ernest Griset, Birket Foster, &c., &c., &c.), and are specially suited for Gifts, Prizes, or Testimonials ; Dante’s Inforno, illustrated by Gustave Dore, crown-folio ; cloth, extra gilt Dante’s Paradise and Purgatory, do, do, do Milton’s Paradise Lost, full-page illustrations by Gustave Dore ; cloth, extra gilt Don Quixote, illustrated by Dore, royal 4-to ; j cloth, extra gilt La Fontaine’s Fables, illustrated by Dore royal 4-to ; cloth, extra gilt. , Shakspere, edited by Mr. and Mrs. Cowdeu Clarke, in three volumes. Vol. 1— Comedies. Vol. 2 Historical Plays. Vol. 3 —Tragedies. Cloth, elegant, extra gilt. History of Franoo-Prussian War, 500 engravings, 2 volumes ; cloth, extra gilt. History of the United States, 400 engravings, 2 volumes ; cloth, extra gilt. History of India, maps, plans, and illustrations, crown, 4-to ; cloth, gilt. The Popular Educator, revised to the present date, 6 volumes in 3 ; half-calf, extra cloth sides. Vicar of Wakefield, 200 illustrations, royal 8-vo.; cloth, extra gilt. The Dore Bible, 220 illustrations by Gustave Dore, strongly bound in leather ; two volumes. Kehle’s Christian Year, profusely illustrated, crown 4-to; cloth, extra gilt. Robinson Crusoe, do., do., do. BUsop’s Fables, new and enlarged edition, 150 original grotesque illustrations by Ernest Griset ; cloth, extra gilt. British Battles on Land and Sea, profusely illustrated, crown 4-to; cloth, extra gilt. Baok of the Horse, by Sidney, colored facsimile plates and wood engravings ; cloth, bevelled, extra gilt. World of Wonders, in Nature, Science, and Art, 500 illustrations, imperial, 8-vo.; cloth, full gilt. Picturesque Europe—British Isles—with exquisite steel engravings and original wood engravings, elegantly bound in cloth, extra gilt edges. The (r Portfolio, a collection of the most admired pictures from the Graphic, and a description of the art of wood engraving, elegantly bound, half-morocco, cloth sides, extra gilt. Also, just opened up, a large and carefully selected assortment of children’s books, handsomely bound, all sizes and prices, including the celebrated “One-syllahle Series,” Wonder Library, &c., &c., &c. LYON AND BLAIR, Lambton-quay. TTS’S DIARIES, 187 8. The undersigned have still on sale a large assortment of the above Diaries. 100 Varieties of Form, Size, and Price. LYON AND BLAIR, Importers of Books and Stationery. Lambton-quay. RT UNION OF LONDON, 1878 (Forty-second Year). Every Subscriber of One Guinea will receive, besides a chance of a prize at the annual distribution, an impression of a fine plate, “TEE RETURN OF THE LIFE-BOAT," From the original by E. Duncan. Intending subscribers must forward the amount of their subscriptions to the undersigned on or before the Bth January, 1878. LYON AND BLAIR, Local Agents,

Public Companies THE WELLINGTON CITY TRAMWAYS COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860, and the amendments thereto. Capital, £50,000 in 10,000 Shares of £5 each. Deposit on application, ten shillings per share; payable on allotment, ten shillings per share; residue by calls not exceeding £1 per share, at intervals of not loss than three mouths. Offices of the Company ; Temple Chambers, Eeatherston-street, Wellington. Directors : John Henderson, Esq,, Wellington, Civil Engineer. Robert Greenfield, Esq., Wellington, Merchant. Henry Mace, Esq., Wellington, Brewer. H. W. Diver, Esq., Wellington, M.R.C.P., &c. E. W. Mills, Esq., Wellington, Merchant. T. K. Macdonald, Esq., Wellington, Accountant. Hon. John Sheehan, M.H.R. C. W. Schultze, Esq., Wellington, Merchant. Edw. Toomath, Esq,, Wellington. W. T. L. Travers, Esq., M.H.R., Wellington, Solicitor. W. Conyers, Esq., Christchurch, Civil Engineer. Bankers ; The Bank of New Zealand. Engineer : J. R. Davies, Esq., C.E. Solicitors : Messrs. Travers, Ollivier, and Co. Auditors : O. C. Graham, Esq., and C. P. Powles, Esq. This Company has been formed for the purpose of acquiring from the original promoters the concession granted to them for the construction of tramways in the city of Wellington, and of carrying on the undertaking. The Promoters have contracted to complete the works, and to supply sufficient rolling stock and plant, and to transfer the same with all necessary stations, engine-sheds, tools, stores, &c., to the Company, in perfect working order, for the sum of £40,000, which is to be paid to them out of the capital ; but the Directors, in view of future extensions of the undertaking, have thought it expedient at once to provide for additional capital. The works will positively be completed within four or five months from this date, and arrangements have been made for carrying on both passenger and goods traffic immediately upon their completion. Experience has shown that similar undertakings have proved valuable investments, and from calculations carefully made by the Directors, they have reason to believe that the concern will prove highly remunerative to shareholders. Copies of the memorandum and articles of association may obtained on application to the Directors and Solicitors of the Company, nt any branch of the Bank of New Zealand, and at the Offices of the Company. Applications for shares, accompanied by the necessary deposit, may now- be made to the Bankers of the Company. f Wellington, 14th November, 1877.